[PATCH] e500v2 36 bit large physical HID0[EN_MAS7_UPDATE]

[Aggrwal Poonam-B10812]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micha Nelissen [mailto:micha at neli.hopto.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:55 PM
> To: Aggrwal Poonam-B10812; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] e500v2 36 bit large physical HID0[EN_MAS7_UPDATE]
> 
> Aggrwal Poonam-B10812 wrote:
> >> Attached is a patch to fix large physical address support for the
> >
> > This is already being done by u-boot, should linux set it again?
> 
> Yikes! Took me 5 min to reformat your email.
> 
> Our version of U-boot does not but it's not latest greatest.
> 
> IMHO:
> 1) Linux should not be dependent on U-boot or any other bootloader, or
at
> least as possible
> 2) U-boot cannot (and does not want to) know whether Linux is going to
> use large physical addresses.
> 
Not sure of other platforms but on 85xx platforms on which I am
currently working u-boot does LAW and eLBC programming for 36bit
physical address. Hence 
possibly u-boot has to made aware of large physical address space.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
> Regards,
> 
> Micha